Does America Still Work
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness For nearly two years, Americans have engaged in a great woke experiment of cannibalizing themselves. American civilization has invested massive labor, capital, and time in an effort constantly to flagellate itself for not being perfect. Yet neither America’s resilience nor its resources are infinite. We are now beginning to […]
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part Two
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner Yet rarely do we connect America’s malaise, its divisions, and its obsessions with national decline, to a loss of citizenship—the original glue that once held together the American experiment. Perhaps we assume that a “citizen” is a natural concept that arose organically with the ascent of civilization itself. It […]
The Traditionalist: The Mess of Getting Out
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the exit from Afghanistan, the regional implications and obligations of the US. Plus, the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot shows no evidence of insurrection..
VDH UltraWhen Citizenship Dies: Part One
Victor Davis Hanson // Historian’s Corner In its 245th year has America become dangerously divided or just chaotic—or both? More Americans are currently concluding that their country either does not work as it once did, or works all too well in ways that are frightening. In a recent five-day period in California’s Central Valley, where I […]
The Drossy Touch of Joe Biden
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Almost everything Joe Biden has touched since entering office has turned to dross. None of his blame-gaming, none of his distortions, none of his fantasies and unreality can mask that truth. The Afghan Catastrophe Seven months ago, Afghanistan was relatively quiet—with about 10,000 vestigial NATO troops, including 2,500 Americans, […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation In Just A Few Months
Part Four: Steps 9-10 Erase Customs and Traditions Ending a nation requires discrediting its past. Start with Year Zero reinvention. That is, 1776 and 1787-9 are no longer our foundational dates. Instead 1619, a made-up date supposedly when the first African-American slave stepped onto North America, marks the foul birth of the now despised country, […]
The Traditionalist: Special on Afghanistan
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the current events in Afghanistan.
Ripples of Kabul
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of Kabul. Enlistees apparently calculated that their own meager chances with the premodern Taliban were still better than fighting as a dependency of the postmodern […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part Three: Steps 6-8. VI. Trash the Productive Class Why are frackers considered not just polluters, but near criminal enemies of the planet? Thanks to them, abundant natural gas has reduced US carbon footprints in a manner that exceeds those nations in the Paris Climate Accord. Thanks to them, the US has no strategic interests […]
The Traditionalist: Investigations of John Solomon
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson as he interviews investigative reporter John Solomon on the investigations of FBI misconduct, Hunter Biden’s computers, the Clinton uranium deal, and the whistleblower plus Vindman and more. It’s an exhaustive conversation. Listen in.
Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them. The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the […]
VDH UltraOur Afghan Agonies
Victor Davis Hanson // The Blade of Perseus Joe Biden could easily have stayed quiet about his intentions in Afghanistan—or at least leave the enemy in some doubt. He might have maintained US air facilities to support Afghan forces, and kept the major cities secure as they were between 2017-20 under Trump, who himself […]
Radio Free Hillsdale: VDH, Coupland and Swineheart
Scot Bertram talks with Victor Davis Hanson about the re-release of his book MEXIFORNIA and the current state of our southern border. Dan Coupland takes a dive into the children’s classic TREASURE ISLAND. And Anthony Swinehart shares with us his discovery of a new species of hickory tree.
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part Two: Steps 4-5 IV. Ruin the Currency The work of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of economists, and the pragmatic tough policies of Paul Volker broke modern American inflation 40 years ago. We know what causes it and why—printing money in lieu of commensurate increases in population, productivity and national wealth for short-term […]
The Culturalist: The Deep State
Victor Davis Hanson // Art19 and Just the News Join Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc for thoughts initially on the “deep” airlines but mostly on the deep state. Are there answers for the inertia and crime?
American Armageddon
Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time […]
VDH UltraHistorian’s Corner: Ten Easy Ways to Unwind a Nation in Just a Few Months
Part I: Steps 1-3 I. Destroy the Law Joe Biden has simply destroyed federal immigration law. He broke his oath to execute faithfully our statutes by allowing literally hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated, untested, and illegally entering foreign nationals to storm the southern border. By fiat, Biden simply erased away any demarcation between Texas and […]
VDH on the Ingram Angle
Victor Davis Hanson speaks with Laura Ingram about a new video of Hunter Biden speaking candidly to his prostitute friend. Click here to view the video
The Traditionalist: Squatters, Larry Elder, Iran, et al.
Listen in as Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the rent moratorium, masking madness, Edler’s run for governor, the war on DeSantis, and Victor’s latest issue of “Strategika” on Iran.